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 probably therefore Part i is to be dated in the summer, and Part ii in the early winter of 1599. Clearly the painter scene cannot, as Fleay, ii. 75, suggests, be motived by a casual allusion to a painter in Cynthia's Revels (F_{1}) 2673 or the painter scene added on revision to Kyd's Spanish Tragedy, since both are later. The 'armed Epilogue' of Part i seems to me clearly a criticism of the armed prologue of Jonson's Poetaster (1601); it may have been an addition of 1601. Part ii, prol. 13, 23, calls the theatre 'round' and 'ring'. ''What You Will. 1601''

S. R. 1607, Aug. 6 (Buck). 'A commedie called What you will.' Thomas Thorp (Arber, iii. 358). 1607. What You Will. By Iohn Marston. G. Eld for Thomas Thorpe. [Induction and Prologue.] Edition by C. W. Dilke (1814, O. E. P. ii).—Dissertation: F. Holthausen, Die Quelle von Marston's W. Y. W. (1905, Jahrbuch, xli. 186). Bullen, Fleay, ii. 76, Small, 101, and Aronstein agree in regarding the play as written in 1601 by way of answer to Cynthia's Revels, and they are probably right. Small shows that, in spite of the fact that Quadratus calls Lampatho Doria a 'Don Kynsader' ( i. 134), Lampatho must stand for Jonson, and Quadratus to some extent for Marston himself. Perhaps Simplicius Faber is the unidentified Asinius Bubo of Satiromastix. Both Fleay and Small think that the play has been revised before publication, partly because of confusion in the names of the characters, and partly because of the absence of the kind of Marstonian language which Jonson satirized. Small goes so far as to suggest that the seventeen untraceable words vomited by Crispinus in The Poetaster came from What You Will, and that Marston rewrote the play and eliminated them. The rest of Fleay's conjectures about the play seem to me irresponsible. If the play dates from 1601, it may reasonably be assigned to the Paul's boys. The induction, with its allusions to the small size of the stage and the use of candles, excludes the possibility of an adult theatre. ''The Dutch Courtesan. 1603-4''

S. R. 1605, June 26. 'A booke called the Dutche Curtizan, as yt was latelie presented at the Blackeffryers Provyded that he gett sufficient Aucthoritie before yt be prynted.' John Hodgettes (Arber, iii. 293). [A further note, 'This is alowed to be printed by Aucthoritie from Master Hartwell'.]

1605. The Dutch Courtezan. As it was played in the Blacke-Friars. by the Children of her Maiesties Reuels. Written by Iohn Marston, T. P. for John Hodgets. [Prologue.]

S. R. 1613, April 19. Transfer to Hodgettes of Eleazer Edgar's interest in the play (Arber, iii. 520).

As a Queen's Revels play, this must have been on the stage at least as late as 1603, and the clear proof of Crawford, ii. 1, that several passages are verbal imitations of Florio's translation of Montaigne,